Rediscovering Sainthood in Italy Hagiography and the Late Antique Pa
Beginning with Saint Barbatianus, a fifth-century wonderworking monk and confessor to the Empress Galla Placidia, this book focuses on the changes in the religious landscape of Ravenna, a former capital of the Late Roman Empire, through the Middle Ages. D
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Rediscovering Sainthood in Italy HAGIOGRAPHY and the LATE ANTIQUE PAST in MEDIEVAL RAVENNA Edward M. Schoolman
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The New Middle Ages Series Editor Bonnie Wheeler English & Medieval Studies Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas, USA
The New Middle Ages is a series dedicated to pluridisciplinary studies of medieval cultures, with particular emphasis on recuperating women’s history and on feminist and gender analyses. This peer-reviewed series includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections.
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Edward M. Schoolman
Rediscovering Sainthood in Italy Hagiography and the Late Antique Past in Medieval Ravenna
Edward M. Schoolman Department of History University of Nevada Reno, Nevada, USA
The New Middle Ages ISBN 978-1-137-60271-8 ISBN 978-1-349-93225-2 DOI 10.1057/978-1-349-93225-2
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am indebted to a large number of institutions, friends and colleagues for their support during the writing of this book. Early research received financial support from the Scholarly and Creative Activities Grants Committee of College of Liberal Arts and the Noble Endowment of the Department of History at the University of Nevada, Reno, which enabled trips to Italy to consult manuscripts and charters. I am grateful for the help of the staff of the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center at UNR (and the members of the interlibrary loan offices, in particular) and those at Historical StudiesSocial Science Library at the Institute for Advanced Study, as well and the ar
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